"The Ground Truth" stunned filmgoers at the 2006 Sundance and Nantucket Film Festivals. Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans – ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq – as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq,...
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The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends is one of many documentaries
to hit theaters over the last year that take a look at the growing costs of
the Iraq war, and by "costs" I mean the human toll and the capabilities
of the United States to exert its power on other countries. Of course, The
Ground Truth also begs the question: does every soldier in Iraq actually
think it's a waste of time?
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